BARACK OBAMA

The Russian president said he fears giving lethal weapons to Ukraine will just lead to a higher death toll and undermine the Minsk II agreement.

Climate change and its threat to the economy "can no longer be denied," U.S. President Barack Obama says Saturday, in advance of his Earth Day speech.

Italy's Matteo Renzi says in Washington that restoring stability to the war-struck nation of Libya is key to stopping Italy’s ongoing migrant crisis.

The air base is highly unpopular with residents of Okinawa island, where some of the fiercest ground battles of World War II took place.

Advocates doubt that the federal judges hearing the case against Obama's executive actions really understand immigrants' lives.

The president complained that Lynch has been awaiting Senate confirmation longer than the previous seven nominees combined.

A recent study examined U.S. states' policies regarding immigrants' access to health services, higher education and government IDs.

The law would repeal a despised, decade-old formula for how to pay doctors through the federal healthcare program.

An appeals court in New Orleans will hear the case that temporarily halted the president's executive actions on immigration.

If the pontiff visits the island nation, he would be the third head of the Roman Catholic Church to travel to the country.

A federal agency said it would tie funding for low-income hospitals in Florida to an expansion of Medicaid there.

“Orange Is the New Black” star Laverne Cox is hoping to inspire women of color, as well as other transgender women, by posing for Allure’s nude issue.

The former secretary of state's remarks this week put her at odds with President Barack Obama, who has put limits on aid.

An ongoing fight over an unrelated bill has ensured the record-long wait will continue.

Undocumented immigrants in the United States paid $11.84 billion in taxes in 2012, according to a new report.

In New York and across the country, thousands of low-wage earners took to the streets, calling for “$15 and a union.”

Economies in Liberia and Sierra Leone are recovering from the deadly outbreak -- but not everyone is benefiting, World Bank data show.

China's state-run media has begun a campaign to assure netizens that Hillary Clinton's presidential aspirations are no threat to Sino-American relations.

Civil rights leaders and others say they support a U.S. attorney general nominee who would be the first black woman to hold the job.

U.S. President Barack Obama dropped his opposition on Tuesday to a bill giving Congress a voice on a nuclear deal with Iran after members of his Democratic Party negotiated changes to the bill that had won strong support from both parties.

If approved, the agreement will grant Congress a 52-day window to review terms of any final deal on Iran’s nuclear program.